Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-26

lect with the education OF the heart. OIL
you are rousing up within Your chile
an energy which viii be blasting ant
terrific. Better Il wicked Ounce han ;
wicked philosopher.
IL FOURTH ERROR
often committed in the training o
children is the supp csSinu If childisf
sportfulness. The most triumphant
death of any child that | ever knew wa.
that of ScoviDe Haynes McCollum A
few days before that, be was AZ MY
house i'll Syrlcu,c, and he ran like q
deer and his halloo made the woods
echo. You could hear hlm coming a
block off, SO full was he of romp and
laughter and whistle. Don't put re-
ligion on your child rs a straight
jacket. Parents after having for Il
good many years been jostled about in
the rough world often lose their
vivacity. and are astonished 10 see how
their children can act SO thoughtlessly
of the earnest world all about them.
That is "A cruel parent who quenchcs
any of the light ID n child's soul. In
stead OF arrcsting it's sportfulness, 90
forth and help him trundlo the
hoop, and fly the kite, and
build the snow castle. Those
shoulders are too little 20
carry Il burden, that brow is too young
TO be wrlnkled, those feet are too
sprightlv to GO along at "A funeral
pace. God bless their young hearts!
Now is the time tor them to be Sport.
full. Let them romp and sing and
laugh, ana go with a rush aud .
hurrah. In this way they gather up a
surplus of energy for future life, For
the child that walks around with a
scowl, dragging his feet as though they
were weights II sitting down by the
hour in moping and grumbling l
prophesy II life of utter inanition and
discomfort. Sooner hush the robins
in the air till they are silent as a bat,
and lecture the trisking lambs on the
hillside until they walk like old sheep,
rather than put eXhilaraut childhood in
the stocks.
lie FIFTH FltttOh
in the training of childhood is the
postponement OF its moral culture
until too late. Multitudes of children
because of their p~recocity have been
urged into depths OF study where they
ought no TO 90, and their intellects
have been overburdened and over
strained and battered to pieces against
Latin grammars and algebras, and
coming forth into practical life they
will hardly rise into mediocrity, and
there is now a stuffirg aud examining
system Of education in the schools of
our country that is beautiful to the
teachers wEo have TO enforce it, and
destructive TO the children who must
submit to the process. You find chill
dren at nine and ten years of age with
school lessons only appropriate for
children Of fifteen. If children are
kept in school and studying from 9 TO
3 o'clock, no home study except music
ought to be required Of them. Six
hours of study is enough for any child.
The rest of the day ought to be devoted
to recreation and pure fun. But you
cannot begin too early the moral cul-
ture of a child or on too complete a
scale. You can look back upon your
own life and remember what
mighty impressions were made
upon you at five Or six years of age.
Oh, that child does not sit SO silent
your conversation to be influ-
enced by it. You say he does not un-
derstand. Although much of your
ph~raseology is beyond his grasp, he is
gathering up from your talk influences
which Will affect his
IMMORTAL DESTINY.
From the question he asks you long
afterward you find he understood all
about what you were saying. You
think the child does not appreciate
that beautiful cloud, but its most deli
cate lines are reflected into the very
of the youthful nature, and "A
score of years from now you will see
the shadow of that cloud in the tastes
and retinements developed. The song
with which you sing that child to sleep
will echo through all its life, and ring
back from the very arches of heaven.
| think that often the first seven years
of a child's life decides whether it will
be irarscible, waspish, rude, false, hypo-
critical, or gentle, truthful, frank,
obedient, honest and Christian. The
present generations Of men will pass
off very much as they are now. Al
though the Cos pei is offered them, the
general rule is that drunkards die
drunkards, thieves die thieves, liber-
tines die libertines. Therefore to the
youth we turn. Before they SOW
WILD OATS
get them to SOW wheat and ba-ley.
You Will fill the bushel measure with
good corn, and there will be no room
for husks. Glorious Alfred Goodman
was converted ut ten years of age. At
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the pro-
gress Of a religious meeting in the
Methodist Church, while many were
kneeling at the foot Of the altar, this
boy knelt ia q corner of the church all
by himself and said: precious Saw
Jour, thou art saving others, o, wilt
thou not save mep" A PRESBYTERIAN
elder knelt beside him and led him in
to the light. Enthroned Alfred Cook
man! Tell me from the skies, were
Won converted too earlvp Rut